Friday, September 5, 2008

Wednesday, August 27, 2008, St. Owald, England.
The English use the word walk instead of hike, like Americans do. It is truly hiking today, through soft green grass and rolling green countryside. It is a bit muddy where cows pass through gates and we must cross their trail. It is really nice to stop for a hot lunch, today we are at Robin Hood's Inn, eating battered prawns and chips, which are fat french fries.

I loved watching the flocks of birds swooping over the fields,
the grove of very old Beech trees,
a plantation of conifers we walked through, it was like a fairyland of green with a small, winding path,
walking in the countryside all day,
walking along some of Emporer Hadrian's wall, built in 122AD by the Romans.
gathering sheep wool from a fence where the sheep had been scratching,
going over stiles, some are like short ladders, others are stones set in the stone wall,
butterflies on the thistle.

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